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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 23, 2020 19:14:06 GMT
Morgan yes, I always use the same dishes and put them in the same spot. Wheat grass and herbs get clipped to their cage in the same couple of spots. I've been thinking about that. Somewhere I read that food should be placed in different spots to teach them to "forage". The vet who posted it called birds like mine "perch potatoes"! They also don't go to the bottom of their cage. The same article said you should put treats on the bottom, again to teach them to forage and work for their food. When I gave them their seeds today, one dish had Tops pellets mixed in and I put a few of my sprouts in the other dish.
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Post by Morgan on Sept 23, 2020 19:42:01 GMT
I think something I noticed with my birds at least, switching them to Harrison’s, is that even though I regulated how much seed they were getting, they were less interested in other foods. It could just be that since they know they will be getting seed if they don’t eat their current food, they are willing to wait until they get their seed instead. When switching my birds to Harrison’s (maybe because I have so many or they are not so picky), I put a very small amount of seed (about a teaspoon, but for 8 birds, so maybe ¼ tsp for your two) with 4tsp of pellets (½ tsp per bird with my 8, so 1 tsp for your two). That is the lower half of what they should be eating in a day for the pellets, according to the Harrison’s packet. Once you see them eating the Harrison’s at all - they know it’s food - don’t replace it until they have eaten all of the pellets. Then feed them an appropriate amount of seed for the second half of the day - which should be about once more tsp of seed each, plus a tiny bit of millet for daily training. Once they get used to that You can feed just Harrison’s in the morning, and just seed for the second half of the day - or just sprouted seed, which should be a bit healthier and recognizable as food. Compared to the Harrison’s only in the morning, the sprouted seed will be that much more appetizing! Not to mention their millet treats for training.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 23, 2020 23:48:51 GMT
Its late afternoon here now and Buddy mostly behaved himself. This morning as I was putting the wheat grass in their cage, Buddy leaned towards my hand like he was going to bite. I told him, Buddy No, and he didn't bite. When they were out I held a bauble of millet for Buddy. He came and perched on my hand. He ate a couple seeds while I was telling him he was a good boy and I put him on his perch. He came back and I repeated. Then Tweetie Pie came to eat. Buddy sat on my arm and crawled up to my shoulder. He then flew to my eyeglasses and nipped a bit hard. I shook my head and said Buddy No. He flew off. A couple hours later I repeated this. The second time I put Buddy down he flew to the top of the cage. I called him, Buddy come and he came for some more millet. Then Tweetie Pie came and finished it. Later I was sitting in my chair beside the cage and Buddy came out. I held up my arm for him, he landed and then flew up to my eyeglasses. This time he didn't bite, just little kisses. He didn't stay long. I'll try it again tomorrow and hopefully he still behaves.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 24, 2020 0:08:58 GMT
I meant to post the above on my "bitey" thread, not here so I'm copying it over there.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Sept 24, 2020 16:53:15 GMT
I decided that I'd stop the sprout growth at this point. I put some in a dish for them and the rest in the fridge. They are still not eating them. Since its easy to make those sprouts, I'll keep them going in hopes that my guys will eat them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 8:19:14 GMT
I'm debating whether to make up a large batch of chop and freeze it. Yuki enjoys shredding things but doesn't always go for the veggies, whereas they'll both explore in a bowl that looks like their seed bowl. And I can scatter some seeds in.
But really I'd need a food processor to do it well as I can't chop very small by hand, and I don't want to get that only for them to not be interested in the chop.
Shredding pieces looks more fun anyway, but then I don't now if they might eat more of it as chop. Probably not.
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Post by mona on Oct 6, 2020 12:58:00 GMT
I decided that I'd stop the sprout growth at this point. I put some in a dish for them and the rest in the fridge. They are still not eating them. Since its easy to make those sprouts, I'll keep them going in hopes that my guys will eat them. You could try sprouts at different stages. They might like some seeds just swelled up, some with little sprout, or sprouted completely or the shoots.. I guess your birdies like the swelled or just sprouted version for some of the seeds, as per your earlier post... You just need to find out how they like the seed sprouts. I generally have all seeds stored in different small containers.. I sprout them separately too to check on the individual sprout time for each seed and to also check with the taste of my birdies..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 13:01:54 GMT
Mine are currently semi pains about veggies. Yuki will go for anything that's a leaf. He'll very occasionally experiment with a nibble of something else but usually abandons it quickly. Indie just won't be persuaded.
I have my first batch of seeds soaking. Only done a day's worth to test.
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Oct 6, 2020 14:36:15 GMT
Buddy seems to like the sprouts n their early stage with the tail just showing. Tweetie Pie hasn't touched them.
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